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Paul Zaidins serves as the Chairman and CEO of DataSpan Holdings, Inc. DataSpan is a national technology solutions provider that helps our customers accomplish more with fewer resources. Mr. Zaidins is Managing Partner and Founder of Bonefish Capital. Bonefish Capital is a Merchant Banking firm focusing on advising and investing in Middle Market companies in the Technology, Route Based Services (Document Destruction, and Records Management), Amusement, Manufacturing and Distribution industries. Previous to founding Bonefish Capital, Mr. Zaidins was the interim CEO of New London Communications. He led New London through a successful restructuring. Under Mr. Zaidins leadership, New London achieved a quarter over quarter revenue increase of over twenty percent as well as improving employee morale and key vendor relationships. Prior to New London, Mr. Zaidins led American Locker through a successful turnaround which included re-branding it as the “orange key” company. While at Locker, he successfully lobbied the US Congress as part of a coalition of key business leaders that resulted in the passage of a tax provision that resulted in a seven-figure tax refund to Locker. Mr. Zaidins was instrumental in helping American Locker support FedEx in their development of the Ship&Get™ lockers. He led the negotiations that resulted in American Locker securing a contract to provide lockers as a service at Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland which included American Locker employees providing frontline support to Disney guests. Mr. Zaidins has significant middle market investment banking and independent sponsor experience as a Managing Director at Lane-Link Group and Vice-President at ECDI Capital. The principals of ECDI have subsequently rebranded the firm Valesco Industries. Mr. Zaidins started his career at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Progressive CEO and Board member with a 23+ year track record of delivering strong business results in startup, mid-size and large companies. Created and scaled businesses in enterprise software, Cloud/SaaS, Mobile Platforms and Applications, Software Defined Networking, Security, Unified Communications and Collaboration and Service Provider segments. I am passionate about building innovative, customer focused, collaborative high performance leadership and cross-functional teams. My extensive global experience spans General Management (P&L management), Strategy, Product Development, Services, Operations, Market Development, Strategic alliances, Private Equity, Board memberships, and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Firoz H. Lalji has lived the ultimate American success story. Born of Indian ancestry in the East African country of Uganda, Lalji became the principal provider for his household at 24 when Idi Amin ousted his family from their home and their sugar-cane processing and coffee plantation business. Lalji immigrated with his family to Canada in 1971, completely impoverished. He banked on his finance skills honed while earning his degree at the London School of Economics to navigate the sea of obstacles in his entrepreneurial ambition. In Vancouver, BC, he swiftly built a life for his family, founding the successful Kits Cameras photographic retailer chain in 1973 that eventually numbered 225 locations in both Canada and the Unites States. Lalji moved to Washington state in 1981 and, following the sale of Kits in 1997, he co-founded Zones, Inc. in 1988--a nationwide provider of progressive technology solutions to business and public sectors. In 1989, he found the real estate investment company Fana Capital Corporation. Lalji had reinvented and revolutionized Zones, shaping the company into the fifth largest private company headquartered in Washington for 2013. In hopes of fueling success for other emerging minority entrepreneurs, Zones, under Lalji's leadership, was a founding corporate partner of the University of Washington's annual one-week immersive Minority Business Executive Program. Lalji additionally established the Program for African Leadership, a public charity which supports the development of the next generation of African leaders by providing funding for 15 participants at the London School of Economics annually, as well as other programs to benefit his home continent of Africa.

Jeffrey Thomas is a Board Member at BookRags, TRUSTEE at Greater Spokane, and Board Member at World Adventures Unlimited Inc. He has experience at Adecco and has worked as Board Member at AMBASSADORS GROUP INC, Board Member at OFF The Beaten Path LLC, and Exec VP/CFO/Secretary at AMBASSADORS GROUP INC. Jeffrey works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at Inland Northwest Council. He studied at DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

Tayloe Stansbury has more than 35 years of experience building scalable technology platforms and organizations across a number of leading companies. He currently serves as CEO of Kaleidescape, the leader in products and content that enable the finest home cinema experience. He previously served as interim CEO of Watermark Insights; and prior to that served as executive vice president and chief technology officer at Intuit, where he was responsible for all product engineering, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and information technology. Tayloe also previously served as chief information officer at VMware. Earlier, he was executive vice president of Ariba, where he led product management, engineering, hosting and customer support. Tayloe currently serves on the board of directors of Watermark Insights LLC, Kaleidescape Inc., and Trelly Group, Inc. (formerly DeShong, LLC). He previously served on the board of directors of Blue Jeans Network, Inc. and Shutterfly Inc., as well as for several nonprofit organizations, including Harvey Mudd College. Tayloe graduated with honors in applied mathematics from Harvard University.

Strategic and driven leader with a proven track record of exceeding targets, building new businesses, developing high-performance teams and delivering sustained growth.